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Aquarium strain | | Water conditions: Moderately soft and acidic | Water temperature: 24-27oC | | Disposition: Active, but not aggresive | Community tank?: Yes, a good community fish | | Spawning Method: Adult fish removed from tank | Breeding problems:
Poor fry survival rate | | Sex ratio: Roughly equal | Breeding difficulty: Easy | | Sucess: Average | Years Experience: 2 | | Other Comments: Quite easy to breed in a dedicated tank and given the proper attention.
Fine community fish. I keep my adults in a heavily planted tank with Apistogrammas and Rainbow fish and they do fine. | | Date this record created: 4th May 2006 | Breeding date: 1st September 2005 | | Breeder: | Location: |
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Aquarium strain | | Water conditions: Moderately hard and alkaline | Water temperature: 16-19oC | | Disposition: Slightly timid | Community tank?: Only with species of similar size | | Spawning Method: Peat (or similar) spawning substrate | Breeding problems: none | | Sex ratio: Roughly equal | Breeding difficulty: Easy | | Sucess: Very sucessful | Years Experience: 1 | | Other Comments: The eggs of Poropanchax normani (Lamp eyes killie)are removed from the adults tank (collected in Java moss with fine brucelles) and they are transfered in a 600 ml jar filled with bottled spring Water(Montclair in Qu?bec city, Canada)...The eggs hatch in 15-18 days at 18oC...
The fry fill their swimbladder few hours after hatching. However, they don't eat immediately after the free swimming stage, They begin to eat 2-3 days after hatching. They are too small to eat live newly hatched Artemia nauplii. Mine were fed with very fine powdered TetraMin flakes (crushed with a mortar in a ceramic dishe)... The powdered flakes are then mixed with very fine dried powdered Spirulina alga. The fry of Poropanchax normanii (Lamp eyes killie) stand near of the water surface and they feed exclusively there on the minute food particles left on the water surface... They begin to catch live and newly hatched Artemia nauplii after 2 weeks. They were so fed with finely powdered TetraMin flakes and live Artemia nauplii (newly hatched to 5 days old) 3 times a day.. The Artemia nauplii were fed with a colloidal suspension of TetraMin Flakes..
My 20 fry live in a 600 ml jar with Java moss under indirect sunlight and with artificial light at night to 12h00pm.. They have 6-8 hours of darkness each night depending of the season... The Lamp eyes fry reach 12mm long in one month and the dorsal and anal fins begins to develop after 2-3 weeks... The juvenile fishes are not agressive each other, they live in schools...
On the other hand, the adult male is rather vigorous and agressive with the female during spawning (wounded fins on the female). 2-3 females per male are preferable...
The adults Lamp eyes killies eat TetraMin flakes, frozen or live adult Artemia(I breed Artemia since 10 years), frozen tubifex worms etc...
St?phane Plante
splante_1@hotmail.com | | Date this record created: 14th July 2005 | Breeding date: 14th May 2005 | | Breeder: St?phane Plante | Location: splante_1@hotmail.com |
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Aquarium strain | | Water conditions: Moderately hard and alkaline | Water temperature: 24-27oC | | Disposition: Active, but not aggresive | Community tank?: Yes, a good community fish | | Spawning Method: Adult fish removed from tank | Breeding problems: none | | Sex ratio: Roughly equal | Breeding difficulty: Very easy | | Sucess: Fairly sucessful | Years Experience: | | Other Comments: Small! Maximum size is said to be 40 mm, but they normally grow to about 30 mm, and start spawning about 15 mm long.
Not aggressive even to conspecifics.
Fast; could be kept with small cichlids and gobies without getting eaten.
Still, keeping them with bigger (10 cm or bigger) fish is probably not a good idea.
A good beginners fish, IMO, as easy or easier to maintain as guppies, and almost as easy to breed.
| | Date this record created: 29th August 2003 | Breeding date: | | Breeder: | Location: |
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*Nomenclature correct according to KILLIDATA
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